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• Title:Empowering social workers for practice with vulnerable older adults / Barbara A. Soniat and Monica Melady Micklos.
  
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• Author/Creator:Soniat, Barbara A.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Micklos, Monica Melady.
  
• Published/Created:Washington, DC : National Association of Social Workers, ©2010.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HV1451 .S643 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Social work with older people.
  
• Medical Subjects: Aged.
  Geriatric Assessment.
  Social Work.
  
• Description:viii, 136 pages : ill ; 26 cm.
  
• Summary:Empowering Social Workers for Practice with Vulnerable Older Adults deals with an emerging practice in geriatric social work - the assessment of capacity - and promotes the "person-in-environment" perspective, which is well suited to this area of practice. In addition to chapters on hoarding and working with elders with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias who live alone, the book's core features include: introduction to geriatric social work; discussion of values and ethical dilemmas; success factors in relationship building; assessment using the capacity-risk model. This makes an excellent and timely graduate text, not only for specialized courses in geriatrics and gerontology, but also in coursework to infuse content related to older adults into the social work curricula. In addition, the book will be a tremendous resource for practitioners in continuing education and certificate programs, educational initiatives for establishing core competencies in geriatric social work, and compliance training for state Adult Protective Services workers. the book is also relevant for other professionals outside of the social work profession who work with older adults, such as physicians, psychiatrists, nurses, and attorneys. (From Publisher Description).
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-129) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780871013958 (pbk.)
  0871013959 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Vulnerable older adults : a population demanding attention
  Geriatric social work as a vital field
  Theoretical perspectives
  Value issues and ethical dilemmas
  The importance of the client-social worker relationship
  Assessing capacity
  Assessing risk
  Using the capacity-risk model to guide assessment and intervention decisions
  Working with older people who hoard
  Live alones : social work interventions with people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias who live alone.